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xjh··on Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003
It prints "You are NOT running Windows XP" on x64 XP.
xjh··on Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
It can be used with dot42 - C# to Android compiler. Visual Studio Express can't.
xjh··on Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode
Security. When you want to run untrusted modding code.

It's hard to sandbox python or lua and block I/O and all system calls. 1 mistake and player computers are compromised.

Even with JS in browser you can't just eval(), you need sandboxing like https://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ or https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/ (200 times slower than js).

xjh··on Flash is dead, long live OpenFL
How does it do networking?

All I see in docs is a simple GET/POST request. Realtime multiplayer game would be very slow using it.

xjh··on Announcing the C++ FAQ
http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/